In a previous post, I showed how you could update one user’s photo for their Outlook and AD profiles via PowerShell. In this post, we will explore how to do this for your entire organization via PowerShell to Office365.
NOTE: I have not tested the scripts as I do not have enough mailboxes in my O365 tenant along with not using a ‘.’ in my alias. If the scripts are incorrect, please inform me with the correction and I will update accordingly.
Please make sure that your photos are reviewed before posting, and try to keep the file size of the photos to a minimum. In Office 365, there exists a limitation for the user photo not to be more than 10 KB in size, but I will show you how to get around that limitation.
Having a user photo for each of your users is very beneficial as it personalizes each account to a face in the company. The user photos can be viewed in below locations:
- Outlook Web Access
- Contact Card
- Thumbnail in emails
- Outlook Client
- Yammer
- Lync Client
- SharePoint (People Search / Newsfeed)
Steps to take:
- Remove the 10KB photo size limitation in Exchange Online
- Prepare a folder with all users photos
- Update the profile photos via a PowerShell cmdlet.
Connect to Exchange Online with the RPS Proxy Method to remove the 10K size limitation
1 2 3 | $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/?proxyMethod=RPS -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session |
NOTE: In the PowerShell cmdlet above, we connected using a different proxy method. This was to overwrite the limitation of uploading the images with size more than 10KB. Using the different proxy method (/?proxyMethod=RPS ) to connect to Office 365 in the above cmdlet accomplishes this.
Prepare a folder locally and place all the photos in that folder
Create a folder named C:/UserPics and make the filename of each photo be the username of that particular user. (i.e. llingerfelt.png)
The below script should be able account for aliases that have a ‘.’ in the id as well. (i.e. lance.lingerfelt)
NOTE: From my research, there is no set photo type that is required for the photo. My suggestion would be to keep the photos .png for size constraints while maintaining picture clarity.
Update the profile pictures via PowerShell
Create the following script and name it Photos-Update.ps1
1 2 3 4 5 6 | $path= 'C:\UserPics\' $Images = Get-ChildItem $path $Images |Foreach-Object{ $Identity = ($_.Name.Tostring() -replace '.png','') $PictureData = $path+$_.name Set-UserPhoto -Identity $Identity -PictureData ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($PictureData)) -Confirm:$false } |
Run Photos-Update.ps1 and the script should upload the photos to Office 365 and apply each photo to the corresponding user.
NOTE: If you’re still having some issues with the alias having a ‘.’ in the name, you can also configure the Photos-Update.ps1 script in this manner to get that working properly:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | $path= 'C:\UserPics\' $Images = Get-ChildItem $path $Images |Foreach-Object{ $Identity = ($_.Name.Tostring() -split "\.") $count = $Identity.count If($count -gt 2) { for($i=0; $i -le $count-2; $i++) { $username=$username+$Identity[$i]+"." } $Id=$username.TrimEnd(".") } Else { $Id=$Identity[0] } $PictureData = $path+$_.name Set-UserPhoto -Identity $Id -PictureData ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($PictureData)) -Confirm:$false $username=$null } |
HAPPY SCRIPTING!
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REFERENCES:
How to import Office365 User photos over 10KB & without CSV in bulk
